Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-02-20

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There Is certainly that which is en-
couraging tofarmers. Hay has brought
a good price; almost all farm products
have sold readily and at remuneratlye
rates; hops have been high, and the
crop has brought into the country fully
$S00, 600; beef and mutton now bring
~ cents ON foot; and even the hog,
that all deplored and decried, will now
bring paying prices.
Now comes the intelligence that a
feet Of over one hundred vessels are
on the way to Puget Sound, some from
England, some from Australia, China,
South American fact, from all parts
of the world. This means increased
activity; means demand for more lum-
Der, more coal, more wheat, more sup
plies for the vessels, more oxen to haul
the logs, more hay to feed them, more
vegetables 10 feed the men, more but
ter, more cheese, more Of everything
we raise.
With such an outlook, need we fear
10 clear more land, dig more bitches,
buy more cows, plant more roots, pillow
little deeper and cultivate n good deal
better7 think not. There is no
doubt that, II we viii SOW, we viii reap
rich reward IN profits, even though
farm labor be high. For one. | never
feel like complaining about labor being
high; it is the unsteady, unreliable,
unthinking labor that troubles the
farmer. This morning, after break
fast, without notice, one OF the men
Quit. He had worked less than q
month, had come to US " fiat broke, !"
and had now probably got so dry that
he could not stand it any longer. 1t
made no difference to him whether we
were Inconvenience OF not. do not
mean to say that all labor is as here
described, but what farmer Is there that
has not had like experienced
Because I advised the farmers Of
Lewis county not TO plant hops more
than their local help could harvest, n
Mhateom county paper pitches into
me, / might almost say sayagely, nc
cusing me OF having interested motives
in discOuraging the planting OF hops.
do not discourage the judiciOus plant
ing Of hops. Ii IS only the rushing
into il without due consideration that
| wish 10 caution the people against.
IL is morally certain that IN any local
| ity where more hops are planted than
can be harvested by the local help, and
the additional piekers must be trans
ported by rail, the cost Of production
viii be greater than in localities more
fayorahly situated. and hence viii not
be able 70 compete.
Apropos Of this subject OF planting
hops, I am Just in receipt OF a letter
l from a prominent gentleman Of New
| York, in which he says: " We are quiet
enough here. although some Of our
| newspapers talk better things, but We
do not see them. IL looks TO as that u
must be a lunatic that would 60 into
hops now" This shows the utter de
moraliEation existing there, bat il does
not follow that we may not increase
our acreage here in a judieious way
only be careful
Some Of our butter customers have
entered a complaint about the Price
| charged for the Riverside fresh ron.
1 In my opinion, unless the lovers 81
good. sweet, freSh-made winter butter
make an their minds 90 pay fifty cents
4 pound for gilt-edge butter. made IN
winter. the supply viii always be short
for il costs nearly II not quite that
much 70 prodnce Il. | want 70 again
aSSert that this Is eznphatically = dairy
| country; that the grass Is green toi
nine months in the year; the wate'
Is soft and pure; the summer nights
are cool; feed Is good even IA the drieS'
weather, nevertheless Ne must iced oui
dairy cows for At least i've months y
the year. or let the full low of MIX Eur
down and the fat go OF the ribs Be
Siaas. we must pay high wages 70 gei
and keen intelligent help. else such ar'
ready 10 20 10 work upon their own
ACCOUNT Even ii cur summers Ar,
esol and winters mild, We must need
look after the milkroom sharp 20 keel
an even temperature; Ne must exer
else constant vigilance 70 see that IN
niIkroorn and dairy utensils are cleAl
aud sweet; that the cows are mike
regularly and clean. and fed and "a
tered. and, / might almost say, hun
drei other things olook after 70 aSsur
succesS.
A correspondent wants 70 know ho'
cur Riverside winter butter = man
/ nre.i. that . makes the color - muc
! Ike ssrass-maae butter" Nothing
nses3 aocolor the katfer. except, We ma
, Saw he feed. The cows are most !